Sounds like a bad cable to me... I'll haul it out next week and give it a shot. Curt
Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 10:31 AM, fmiser via Mercedes<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > Curt wrote: > > > > > > ... my first computer, the TI99/4A. ...I casually mentioned > > > that my first computer had 16KB of RAM and we saved programs > > > to audio tape. ... The younger folks didn't believe you could > > > save programs to audio tape so we had a learning moment... > > fmiser wrote: > > > > Sure! You could _save_ the program to audio tape - but how > > often were you able to _load_ from audio tape? In that > > respect, the TI was pretty weak. We had better luck with > > reel-to-reel at higher tape speeds than with cassette, but it > > was still not very dependable. > Curt wrote: > Uhh, always? Never had a failure, still works 35 years later... > Curt Really! Wow... I'm remembering we tried at least 3 different cassette machines and I think two different reel to reel and we had less than 50% success loading a program. Maybe closer to 25%. One brother gave up on it and would write a program from memory, use/play until the computer locked up, then type it in again because he found that less frustrating than the tapes. Maybe ours had a problem... _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
